The legend of Popocateptl and Iztaccihuatl, the star-crossed lovers who became mountains, and now guard Mexico City.
Browsing: Stories We Grew Up With
The pontianak is the image of unbridled, uncontrolled feminine rage.
“Everyone has some sort of teta whose smells take them back to special memories.”
The moon has been a source of fascination for many cultures, and the Chinese are no different.
Stories of Nyi Loro Kidul go back to the beginning of Indonesia. There are many different versions of this story: here is the version my grandma told me.
Kartik and Ganesh were fighting about who loves their mother more. Goddess Durga, annoyed by their quarrelling all the time, proposed a competition.
Author’s note: Due to colonisation and the effect the White Australia policy had on my people, I did not grow up with these stories given in physical form. My story has been revealed to me slowly through Dreams and visions, which in my culture is a form of how songs and stories are passed down via the other realm.
Death is ageless and wise
her anklets and toe rings unstained
from the slain bodies she stands on
As the sun sets, a whisper of a question flits through my mind and fills me with caution: what if the stories are true?
In Samoa, they cover mirrors at night time.